ABOUT Tokujin Yoshioka

Tokujin Yoshioka was born in Japan in 1967. He graduated from Kuwasawa Design School in 1986, then trained with Shiro Kuramata and Issey Miyake. Became a freelance designer in 1992 and he opened his own studio in 2000, Tokujin Yoshioka Design. He has worked with Japanese and international companies such as Hermès, Toyota, BMW and Swarovski, designing showrooms and installations. He has collaborated with Kartell, Driade, Glas Italia and Moroso, amongst others. The signature feature of his creations is their poetic, light, dreamlike quality, his products, interiors and installations are the result of painstaking, complex research carried out on simple materials, combined with experimental technology. He is the  winner of a large number of awards such as:Design Miami, Designer of the Year 2007, the Wallpaper Design Awards 2008 and Elle Decoration International Design Award, Designer of the Year 2009. His designs are on display at the MoMA and the Cooper Hewitt in New York, the Victoria & Albert in London and the Vitra Design Museum.